External tutorials

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General Tutorial Websites

These are webpages where individuals or companies write about their experience with libGDX from a technical perspective. Some of the tutorials present in these pages are also referenced below in more topic specific sections but if you're just looking to some websites where people talk about their general experiences with libGDX you should start here.

• Aurelien's Blog - http://www.aurelienribon.com/blog/
• MoribitoTechX's website - http://moribitotechx.blogspot.pt/p/tutorial-series-libgdx-mtx.html
• Gemserk's blog - http://blog.gemserk.com/
• Gustavo Steigert's personal blog - http://steigert.blogspot.pt/
• Rotating Canvas, an indie developers group webpage - http://rotatingcanvas.com/category/tutorials/
• Impaler's personal webpage - http://obviam.net
• Group of students from Sweden - http://www.dagger.se/#home
• Collection of articles - http://libgdxgaming.com/
• LibGDX video tutorials - http://www.youtube.com/dermetfan

Topic Specific Tutorials

Integrating Google Play Game Services

• http://helios.hud.ac.uk/u1070589/blog/?p=202

Setup

• Gradle setup - http://duckseason.mobi/how-to-setup-gradle-for-existing-libgdx-multi-project-using-the-google-android-plug-in-2/

Internationalization

• http://siondream.com/blog/games/internationalization-for-libgdx-projects/
• http://blog.gemserk.com/2012/05/23/android-and-desktop-games-internationalization-using-java-and-libgdx/

Lightning

• Normal Mapping - http://www.java-gaming.org/topics/glsl-using-normal-maps-to-illuminate-a-2d-texture-libgdx/27516/view.html
• Ambient lightning - http://www.java-gaming.org/index.php?topic=28685.0
• Pulsing fire light effect : http://www.alcove-games.com/new-tutorial-glsl-shaders-to-achieve-a-nice-fire-effect/

Menus

• http://javagamexyz.blogspot.pt/2013/04/user-interface-menus-using-libgdx.html
• http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXY8okVWvwZ0Inrp5YMmYEaoh1FBXBJ1J

Performance Related

• Texture Packer - http://www.badlogicgames.com/wordpress/?p=2495 (also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texture_atlas)
• Image Formats - http://gamedev.stackexchange.com/questions/48304/which-image-format-is-more-memory-efficient-png-jpeg-or-gif

Post-Processing

• https://github.com/manuelbua/libgdx-contribs

Shaders

https://github.com/mattdesl/lwjgl-basics/wiki

Wiki containing various examples and information about Shaders. There is some information that is libGDX specific and some that is generic and that you can reuse in libGDX as well.

https://bitbucket.org/Thotep/gdx-shaders/wiki/Home

This is a small library to make using shaders and frame-buffers easier in libgdx. Comes with a collection of sample GLSL shaders.

• Water wobbling effect in tiled map: http://www.alcove-games.com/new-tutorial-vertex-shader-for-tiled-water/

Online Shader Tools

This websites will let you play with WebGL (provided your browser supports it) and see the code behind it.

• http://glsl.heroku.com/
• http://www.iquilezles.org/apps/shadertoy/

Tile based games

• http://siondream.com/blog/games/exploit-tileds-command-tool/ (Tutorial on how to speed up map editing in Tiled and testing the map)

External Tools & Frameworks

• http://www.codeandweb.com/texturepacker (Texturepacker)
• https://github.com/gemserk/animation4j (Animation 4J)
• https://code.google.com/p/java-universal-tween-engine/ (Tween Engine)
• https://github.com/cvayer/RubeLoader (Load RUBE scenes)
• https://code.google.com/p/kryonet/ (Kryonet)
• http://www.mapeditor.org/ (Tiled)

Open-Source projects

These are interesting open-source projects found on the web that use libGDX. This list is intentionally kept as clean and interesting as possible (you won't see repeated projects nor Hello-World kind-of-games here).

• https://github.com/antionio/Dodge-The-Cars
• https://github.com/sandeel/Bushido-Blocks
• https://github.com/bompo/mgcube
• https://github.com/siondream/freegemas-gdx
• https://github.com/gemserk/angryships (Uses admob)
• https://github.com/blainerothrock/RipThroughTIme (Uses Tween engine)
• https://github.com/sednihp/Bomber-Run-libGDX
• https://github.com/crmaykish/SimpleCiv (Civilization Clone)
• https://github.com/gtomee/AudioSpectrumGDX (audio analyzer)
• https://github.com/xclam/ageoftower (Tower Defense Game)
• https://github.com/aspic/libgdx-utils
• https://github.com/iluwatar/TicTactoe
• https://github.com/adketuri/onlinerpg (Herous of Umbra - http://heroesofumbra.com/ , uses Kryonet)
• https://github.com/gemserk/libgdx-test-apps (has iOS component)
• https://github.com/krustnic/HorizontalSlidingPane (Angry-bird like side scrolling menu)
• https://github.com/Sgawrys/TechRTS
• https://github.com/Nushio/Unsealed (Uses Tiles)
• http://code.google.com/p/bomber-clone/source/browse/ (Bomberman clone with multiplayer)
• https://bitbucket.org/zelosfan/a-mazing-towerdefense (Simple Tower Defence)
• http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-26/?action=preview&uid=20260 (Simple 8 Bit-Like platformer)
• http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-26/?action=preview&uid=15341 (MONO - puzzle-like, with physics. Lovely aesthetics.)
• https://github.com/spilth/ld26-minimalism
• http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-26/?action=preview&uid=3661 (Plays with Lights)
• http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-26/?action=preview&uid=5357 (Cornelis)
• http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-26/?action=preview&uid=7213 (Gut Buster Zombie Dash)
• http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-26/?action=preview&uid=11656 (Illumbox)
• http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-26/?action=preview&uid=16114 (Minga-Me)
• http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-26/?action=preview&uid=23252 (minimalism)
• https://github.com/jerrre/LD26-OIA/tree/master/src/nl/jerreav/OIA (OIA)
• http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-26/?action=preview&uid=3377 (Path Breaker)
• http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-26/?action=preview&uid=7570 (Triangulum)
• http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-26/?action=preview&uid=8184 (Lack of Civilization)